Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 129:516 (Oct 1972)
Article: Book Notices
Author: Anonymous

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Book Notices

Elijah: Confrontation, Conflict, and Crisis. By Howard G. Hendricks. Chicago: Moody Press, 1972. 64 pp. Paper, $1.00.

Dr. Hendricks, Professor of Christian Education at Dallas Seminary, is known throughout the land as a gifted communicator and educator. He is also an outstanding teacher and preacher. For those who have not had the privilege of personal contact, this slender volume affords your opportunity. Elijah speaks to us again in each of the five chapters as Hendricks skillfully explains and illustrates the Scripture. Elijah is highly recommended to put a burr in your mental and spiritual saddle.

E. A. Blum

The Bible: God’s Word. By Tenis C. Van Kooten. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1972. 231 pp. Paper, $2.95.

Tenis Van Kooten is pastor of the Fourteenth Street Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan. He previously worked as a missionary in New Mexico. In nineteen chapters, the author deals with subjects normally associated with matters of bibliology—inspiration, authority, infallibility, and canonicity. The author is committed to the total inerrancy of the original autographs of Scripture. In his preface, he promises to deal with the “new hermeneutics” in relation to God’s Word. However, this reviewer found very little of this in the book.

The book is recommended as a study guide on the inspiration and authority of the Bible. The discussion questions at the close of each chapter make the book especially useful for small Bible study classes.

R. P. Lightner

The Trinity. By Karl Rahner. New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. 120 pp. $4.95.

Karl Rahner is one of Roman Catholicism’s leading theologians. In this brief volume on the doctrine of the Trinity he enhances this reputation. He is concerned to save the doctrine from being a canon of dogmatic faith without practical everyday expression in Christian ministry and life. His solution is to emphasize the reality of the eternal subsistence of God in three persons as the God whom Christians worship

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and serve. Rahner in effect is calling for Christians to be consistent trinitarians in thought and action instead of being trinitarians in creed and either Unitarians or tritheists in practice.

J. A. Witmer

Encounter with the Holy Spirit. Edited by George R. Brunk II. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 1972. 245 pp. Paper, $3.95.

This book is the publication of addresses delivered at a consultation on the person and work of the Holy Spirit, held at the Eastern Mennonit...